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AZO Group Management: Rainer Zimmermann to become sole Managing Partner

By the end of 2017, Robert Zimmermann is going to retire as one of the managing partners of the AZO Group in Osterburken. The management responsibility, which is currently shared by Robert and Rainer Zimmermann, will be transferred to Rainer Zimmermann as the sole managing partner, thus keeping the AZO Group as a family business owned by the Zimmermann families.

BULKEX17 has a great deal to offer delegates, whether they are from within the bulk handling materials industry or an allied sector such as mining, quarrying, cement, transport or energy. Among the hot topics of the event are BREXIT, biomass, digitalisation and new technology.

German power producer now exclusively relies on Rema Tip Top for the repair and maintenance of the steel cord conveyor belts in their conveyor systems, which transport millions of tons of coal and excavation material in the Rhenish lignite mining area.

BREXIT, biomass, digitalisation and new technology are among the hot topics for BULKEX17, as the MHEA announces more speakers for its annual two-day conference on 18 and 19 October. Bulk Handling Today and Tomorrow is living up to its promise with seminars from a dozen key speakers from prominent organisations including the Institute for Government, UKTI, Port of Tyne and Siemens.

The sugarcane industry is set to fundamentally change in Far North Queensland, Australia, following an announcement on July 10, 2017, by the Minister for State Development, Dr Anthony Lynham, of State Government support of MSF Sugar’s biorefinery project on the Atherton Tableland. According to MFS Sugar, once operational, the company's biorefinery project will be a world first initiative that will see the company produce sugar, green base load electricity and ethanol from one location, with all three products manufactured through the effective and efficient use of biomass materials grown locally on the Atherton Tableland.

Together with the world’s third largest gold miner, Goldcorp, FLSmidth is co-developing EcoTails, a system for co-mingling dewatered tailings with waste rock in a continuous process. The system is expected dramatically improve tailings and waste rock disposal while economically processing mine waste and increasing water recovery and reuse by as much as 90 to 95%.

The capacity of Metso's Tampere factories will be increased and occupational safety improved with the new production line for Lokotrack mobile crushing plants. The investment of approx. EUR 1 million will significantly shorten the delivery times of equipment models put into line assembly production. The construction work for the new line will already start during the summer, and the first new Lokotrack equipment would come out of the line in Q1 2018.

China Huaneng Group has ordered a Barracuda bucket wheel excavator based overburden system from the mining unit of thyssenkrupp’s Industrial Solutions business area. The order is worth more than EUR 40 million. The system is due to go into operation at the Yiminhe open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia in 2018.